This book explores the epistemic side of oppression, focusing on
racial and sexual oppression and their interconnections. It elucidates
how social insensitivities and imposed silences prevent members of
different groups from interacting epistemically in fruitful ways--from
listening to each other, learning from each other, and mutually
enriching each other's perspectives. Medina's epistemology of
resistance offers a contextualist theory of our complicity with
epistemic injustices and a social connection model of shared
responsibility for improving epistemic conditions of participation in
social practices. Through the articulation of a new interactionism and
polyphonic contextualism, the book develops a sustained argument about
the role of the imagination in mediating social perceptions and
interactions. It concludes that only through the cultivation of
practices of resistance can we develop a social imagination that can
help us become sensitive to the suffering of excluded and stigmatized
subjects. Drawing on Feminist Standpoint Theory and Critical Race
Theory, this book makes contributions to social epistemology and to
recent discussions of testimonial and hermeneutical injustice,
epistemic responsibility, counter-performativity, and solidarity in
the fight against racism and sexism.
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Gender and Racial Oppression, Epistemic Injustice, and Resistant Imaginations
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780199929030
Publisert
2020
Utgiver
Oxford University Press Academic US
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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